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The lions' den : Zionism and the left from Hannah Arendt to Noam Chomsky / Susie Linfield

Linfield, Susie [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2019] [© 2019]

VIII, 389 Seiten ; 25 cm

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-369) and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet ; BfZ (Rechtsgrundlage SLG). WLB Stuttgart

978-0-300-22298-2 (hardcover)

2018954877

9780300222982

OCoLC: 1102427462     

ML 9340  | NY 6000      Ähnliche Literatur

DS149

296.3/82

Basisklassifikation: 89.29 (Politische Richtungen: Sonstiges) ; 15.76 (Vorderer und mittlerer Orient) <Geschichte> ; 15.96 (Geschichte des jüdischen Volkes außerhalb des Staates Israel) ; 15.06 (Politische Geschichte)

*Zionismus ; Nahostkonflikt ; Die Linke      Zum Register

* Koestler, Arthur [1905-1983] ; Arendt, Hannah [1906-1975] ; Deutscher, Isaac [1907-1967] ; Stone, Isidor F. [1907-1989] ; Rodinson, Maxime [1915-2004] ; Memmi, Albert [1920-2020] ; Chomsky, Noam [1928-] ; Zionismus      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Zionism ; Zionism -- Philosophy ; Arab-Israeli conflict ; Right and left (Political science)

Introduction : A double grief, and a hope -- Part one. Europeans. Hannah Arendt : left, right, or wrong? -- Arthur Koestler : the Zionist as anti-semite -- Part two. Socialists. Maxime Rodinson : Marxism, Zionism, and the Arab world -- Isaac Deutscher : a very Jewish Jew -- Albert Memmi : Zionism as national liberation -- Fred Halliday : the journey of a '68er -- Part three. Americans. I.F. Stone : the limits of Isaiah -- Noam Chomsky : the responsibility of intellectuals -- Conclusion : The genius for failure.

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In this lively intellectual history of the political Left, cultural critic Susie Linfield investigates how eight prominent twentieth-century intellectuals struggled with the philosophy of Zionism, and then with Israel and its conflicts with the Arab world. Constructed as a series of interrelated portraits that combine the personal and the political, the book includes philosophers, historians, journalists, and activists such as Hannah Arendt, Arthur Koestler, I.F. Stone, and Noam Chomsky. In their engagement with Zionism, these influential thinkers also wrestled with the twentieth century's most crucial political dilemmas: socialism, nationalism, democracy, colonialism, terrorism, and anti-Semitism. In other words, in probing Zionism, they confronted the very nature of modernity and the often catastrophic histories of our time. By examining these leftist intellectuals, Linfield also seeks to understand how the contemporary Left has become focused on anti-Zionism and how Israel itself has moved rightward